Crossword for Sun, 16/Feb/2020

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Across
2: Surprised fat southerner heading west to execute media mogul Turner (13)

9: Radio hosts drink little (5)

10: Town's rail transport, not express? (9)

11: Get into the archeology scene. (3)

12: Clarifier is followed by mixed signals (9)

13: Someone in favour of wine in jolly good surroundings (9)

15: Buddy goes red in the face, or reddish (5)

16: Mother is outside with Muslim priests (5)

17: New more whingeing talk of lung disease (9)

20: Partly indicates progress of undergraduate (2,1,6)

21: How to eat the heart of marsupial (3)

23: Nude mag flip-flopped describing it's size (9)

25: Surpass former church leader, at first (5)

26: Rap wave using scab? (6-7)

Down
1: Judges playing conkers? (7)

2: Initiate discovered in boffo underwear (5)

3: Not clear but large; you ring us after the morning (9)

4: B-back up string player (7)

5: More spacious island accepted by tenant (7)

6: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

7: Great Dane running about outside caf (3-6)

8: The day ends with an unpleasant ancestral line (7)

14: Flying squirrel making Prince Henry rage (9)

15: Meat and drink kept as refreshment? (4,5)

16: This erratic 23-down twisted neck (7)

17: Discompose each half of turbines (7)

18: Expert in scriptural interpretation in Devon River to fetch sweetheart (7)

19: Nice gal unusually well-behaved (7)

22: Reflective review of lead horse (5)

24: Provoke Church of Scotland's absent leader (3)





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